This Week In LiveCode 103
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
News & blog posts
- LiveCode Global 2018: Extend Your Ticket to LiveCode Global 2018
Interesting discussions
- Comparing 2 Spoken words, FFT function in LiveCode?
- quicken dates
- Android Sound Capture in WAV format
- Need Dropbox guidance
- Clipboard pastes into single spreadsheet cell
- Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson
- Export GIF File Does Retain Frames of Animation
- Resizing stack window by scaling
- mysql WHERE statement problem
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
21 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- ExtensionsCode: Add support for jar files in extension code folders
- JavaFFI: Allow jar file inclusions in desktop standalones
- Fix dictionary search on older OSX versions
- URL decode any HTTP page requests to the emscripten deploy lib
- LCB send and post enhancements
- Add support for user classes on android
- Handle
rawKeyDownto scroll PI group - Improve
Go to definitionfor behaviors in use
Bug of the week
The reporter attached a simple and helpful sample stack, and provided useful info and a detailed recipe that helped us to test and confirm the problem quickly.
Help needed!
Want to get involved in the LiveCode open source project but don’t know where to start? Try one of these:
- (Easy) Improvement in ‘open socket’ dictionary entry
- (Easy) Dictionary: Update example of cameraControlDo entry
- (Easy) MouseEnter / MouseLeave infinite Loop trap - documentation enhancement
- (Easy) outputTextEncoding - parameter description format mixed up
- (Easy) Info missing from mobileGetContactData entry
- (Medium) Add info on manipulating field contents to the User Guide
- (Medium) LC8 Dictionary Copy using cmd+C only works after Run Tool selected
- (Medium) Make guide outlines in the Dictionary expand/collapse with repeated clicks
- (Medium) Dictionary: The LiveCode Script Guide cannot be searched
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
Contributors this week
Upcoming events
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